Each hospital offers a unique care philosophy and special services and support levels. We recommend that pregnant women tour all three hospital birth centers to see what each offers.

Although all three hospitals offer tubs for women to use during labor, Asante Ashland Community Hospital is the only Jackson County hospital that has tubs designed for water births. It also is the only hospital that offers women the possibility of laboring toward a vaginal birth after they have given birth previously by cesarean section. Midwives and doctors evaluate a woman’s potential for a vaginal birth after a cesarean section on a case-by-case basis.